Why Do CIA Use Torture Tactics Justified?

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If we use torture tactics we could prevent more major terrorist attacks. Torture is the easiest way to get information out of terrorist. The CIA would only use torture methods on Al Qaeda leaders in order to get information that may prevent future attacks. Personally I believe that these torture methods are justified because of what they do to POW’s overseas.
59% of the American society support the CIA’s methods according to new polls conducted by telephone calls.(Adam Goldman reports on terrorism and national security for The Washington Post.) After the 911 attacks the CIA was under presidential order to improvise on the fly in order to create a world wide capture program to get Al Qaeda off the battlefields. Sure CIA’s methods of torture

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